Quantum sensing with extreme light

M Kutas, BE Haase, F Riexinger… - Advanced Quantum …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Optical nonlinear conversion processes are ubiquitously applied to scientific as well as
industrial tasks. In particular, nonlinear processes are employed to generate radiation in …

Nonlinear interference in the strongly nondegenerate regime and Schmidt mode analysis

KA Kuznetsov, EI Malkova, RV Zakharov… - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
The possibility to manage and control spectral and spatial properties of optical-terahertz
nonclassical fields generated in strongly nondegenerate parametric down-conversion is …

Generation of optical signal and terahertz idler photons by spontaneous parametric down-conversion

GK Kitaeva, VV Kornienko, AA Leontyev, AV Shepelev - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
Frequency-angular characteristics of signal and idler photons generated under spontaneous
parametric down-conversion are studied in a strongly frequency nondegenerate regime …

Quantum correlation between optical and terahertz photons generated under multimode spontaneous parametric down-conversion

GK Kitaeva, AA Leontyev, PA Prudkovskii - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We study conditions for the generation of strongly correlated photons of two extremely
different frequency ranges, optical and terahertz, via the spontaneous parametric down …

Study of SPDC spectra to reveal temperature dependences for optical-terahertz biphotons

TI Novikova, KA Kuznetsov, AA Leontyev… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Frequency-angular distributions of optical signals generated via spontaneous parametric
downconversion with the Stokes idler frequency shifts 0.2–5 THz are studied simultaneously …

Temperature dependence of THz generation efficiency, THz refractive index, and THz absorption in lithium-niobate around 275 GHz

U Demirbas, C Rentschler, Z Zhang… - Optical Materials …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In this study, we demonstrate the capabilities of the pulse train excitation approach in
determining key material properties of nonlinear crystals, such as refractive index, thermo …

Towards measuring terahertz photon statistics by a superconducting bolometer

P Prudkovskii, A Leontyev, K Kuznetsov, G Kitaeva - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Statistical distributions of the analog readings of an antenna-coupled THz superconducting
bolometer were measured and analyzed under a special type of irradiation by low-energy …

[HTML][HTML] Towards terahertz detection and calibration through spontaneous parametric down-conversion in the terahertz idler-frequency range generated by a 795 nm …

VV Kornienko, GK Kitaeva, F Sedlmeir, G Leuchs… - APL Photonics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We study a calibration scheme for terahertz wave nonlinear-optical detectors based on
spontaneous parametric down-conversion. Contrary to the usual low wavelength pump in …

Direct detection of the idler THz radiation generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion

GK Kitaeva, VV Kornienko, KA Kuznetsov, IV Pentin… - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We study parametric down-conversion (PDC) of optical laser radiation in the strongly
frequency non-degenerate regime which is promising for the generation of quantum …

An improvement of the Cherenkov THz generation scheme using convex silicon prism-lens adapters

GK Kitaeva, DA Safronenkov, NV Starkova - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The terahertz (THz) generation efficiency in the Cherenkov optical rectification scheme can
be improved significantly if the silicon adaptor, mounted at the lateral surface of a nonlinear …